Who Prays For Satan?

It is the basic crux of Christianity: Man is born a sinner. Throughout history, the nature of sin has seen many different faces and has changed to fit many different social expectations. As Bartleby the angel laments in the movie Dogma, “I remember when eating meat on Friday was supposed to be a Hell-worthy trespass.” His friend Loki counters with the observation that, “The major sins never change.” Although the list of the Seven Deadly Sins is never mentioned in the Bible, the concept has existed since before the Middle Ages. Anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride, and sloth are present throughout human civilization even when they are not named as such or displayed as a set of seven. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello is a literary

All throughout our history, we have come to label events, object and people as either good or evil/bad. We tend to believe that the world itself is driven by good forces and evil ones. Since this is a term we often take for granted, it should not be debatable, and all of us should have the same concept about it. Sadly enough that is not true. Societies and culture shape our understanding of evil.

The cardinal sins are “sins that characterize fallen humanity,” according to orthodox Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church in particular (ReligionFacts). While the Bible does include lists of sins, none of these lists align with the traditional “deadly” sins known today; the list of seven cardinal sins were actually created in the fourth century by a monk named Evagrius Ponticus (ReligionFacts). After several revisions, a list of cardinal sins fell into more popular use when poet Dante Alighieri used them in The Divine Comedy (ReligionFacts). According to modern interpretations of the list, the seven sins are as follows:

"The sins described don't seem like sins at all, even if one accepts the religious significance of the term. But they spring from thoughts and behaviors that, overtime become habits."(Benton TSDSOS) For example, Institutions create a mindset for students that push them to take the path of least resistance; and instead of using self denial and self esteem they choose self indulgence. These choices and sins that they indulge in have consequences that can create more unhappiness and difficult paths later down the road. The seven sins that are of topic are, the Sloth, Greed, Anger, Lust, Gluttony, Envy, and finally Pride. These seven sins are the troubling behavior that students succumb to.

The 7 Deadly Sins were a set of acts that were avoided by faithful Christians to preserve communal bonds with neighbors. Wrath, the first deadly sin, was caused by extreme anger and lead to revenge on other neighbors. Envy and Covetousness resembled each other, as both sins are selfish desires for worldly pleasures. One example of pride affecting the community was in the document, Handlying Synne by Robert Manning. Manning writes, “First is pride, as thou well know’st, vanity, pomp, and many a boast’ of rich attire there is great flaunting, spurring her horse with much vaunting.”

These are three of the bible’s seven deadly sins that are ingrained in our society. Sins that our heroes are still fighting today.

Sin has undergone many different definitions because of the dramatic mutation of Christian ideas (Fredriksen). The idea of sin itself has undergone many changes as the ideas grew and changed as Christian ideas grew and changed (Fredriksen). Envy is often regarded as the sin that is at the root of all sins (Epstein). Envy is the deadliest of the fall seven sins because it affects the vast majority of the public, it encompasses the other sins, and envy can manifest into something much worse than simply coveting others (Epstein). Although envy is often referred to as a negative connotation it is also can be views psychologically as helpful and empowering (Laham). These can all be shown through real life examples such as academia and popular culture references. All in all, envy is the deadliest sin of all.

Good and evil have always been part of literature and life. They showcase the different

The seven deadly sins or cardinal sins, are behaviors that classify under the category of immoralities. According to this standard list, they include: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. These sins are often believed to be abuses or excessive versions of a person’s natural senses or passions. Within the articles of The Onion -“The 7 Deadly Sins” give examples of people within a church setting practicing these immoralities, and with some more than once.

To help everyone understand this, evil is classified into four different categories. These would include moral evil, natural evil, gratuitous evil and horrendous evil. Moral evil is the evil, which results from a moral agent misusing his or her freewill such that the agent is blameworthy for it. This includes human actions as well as character traits. An example of a moral evil is someone choosing to smoke and then being diagnosed with lung cancer.

Evil is very compelling in every individual's life today. We let the evil get the best of us and usually instead of the evil becoming dead we are the ones that are dead. Here, today there are several reasons that evil compels each individual, but the main one is because humans are so sinful. We live in a world where evil is so popular, which people don’t think about.the harm it will cause they just go overlook it and go on about their day. Today’s society also make things that are bad seem fun, cool, and several persuades them into becoming a rebel which makes them look unpleasant. Not to mention all the evil weak-minded people like beowulf mentioned “by his hell-forged hands misery leaps,” about the environment they

Good and evil is everywhere in the world. Literature demonstrating this has been around for a long time. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s mystery novella, Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, the Victorian Era influence Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Utterson’s actions.

During the middle ages, Pope Gregory The Great influenced this historical period based off strong legacy of Christian faith. Pope Gregory refined what we know today as The Seven Deadly Sins (or vices). He affected life by arising a new principle of study resulting in religious reformation . What became crystallized as the seven deadly sins does not appear as such in the bible, although the old and new testaments identify attitudes and behaviors that violate the principles of a righteous life.

The world is divided into two, the light and the dark. The exact definition of good and evil is up for debate, but there are situations that are well known for being personifications of good and evil. For example, George Washington, Martin Luther King, and Abraham Lincoln are prime examples of the goodness in society. There are, however, prime examples of the evil in the world personified a few men. Examples of these men are Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Both of these guys are known as evil men who rose from humble beginnings to forever infamy for their misuse and practical terror in power usage.

Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Pride, Vanity, Lust, and Gluttony, the seven deadly sins. While each are very different and the cause of much mischievous and terrible things, they all are connected by the simple fact that they are the sins that are greatest above all other. However, there is a eighth sin that does join this pack and that is despair